EUDAT Porto January 2018

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EUDAT coonference, Porto, Portugal, 22-25 January 2018
Introduction to SeaDataNet infrastructure
Michèle Fichaut, project coordinator (IFREMER, France
Dick M.A. Schaap, technical coordinator (MARIS, Netherlands)

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Oceans and seas are important
Climate, Energy, Food, Tourism, Shipping, Health, ….
GEBCO

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Marine data relevant for many uses:
• Scientific Research to gain knowledge and insight
• Monitoring and assessment (water quality, climate status, stock assessment)
• Coastal Zone Management
• Modelling (including hindcast, now-cast, forecast)
• Dimensioning and supporting operations and activities at sea (shipping,
offshore industry, dredging industry, ..)
• Implementation and execution of marine conventions for protection of the
seas
• Implementation of international Directives, such as in Europe directives for
water (WFD), marine strategy (MSFD), coastal zone management
Users originate from government, science sector, and industry,
nationally and internationally

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Input for models: analyses and
forecasts :
• Operational oceanography
• Physical and meteorological modelling
• Ecosystem modelling

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Acquisition of ocean and marine data
GOOS

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Economy of data acquisition
• Data are collected by governments, research institutes, and private industry (in
Europe already more than 1.000 organisations)
• Data for physics, geophysics, meteorology, chemistry, biology, geology,
bathymetry
• Acquisition of oceanographic and marine data is expensive; annual costs in
Europe estimated at 1.4 Billion Euro (1.0 = in-situ; 0.4 = satellites)
Professional data management is required with
agreements on standardisation, quality control protocols,
long term archiving, catalogues, and access

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What is SeaDataNet?
A pan-European infrastructure set up
and operated for managing marine and
ocean data in cooperation with the
NODCs and data focal points of 34
countries bordering the European seas
90s
Metadata directories
Medar/MedAtlas
2002-2005 Sea-Search (FP5)
2006-2011 SeaDataNet (FP6)
2011-2015 SeaDataNet II (FP7)
2016-2020 SeaDataCloud (H2020)

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SeaDataNet portal
Giving access to
• Standards, tools both
for data centres and
other users
• Data and metadata
• Products
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SeaDataNet standards
• Set of common standards for the marine domain, adapting ISO and OGC
standards and achieving INSPIRE compliance
– Adoption of ISO 19115 – 19139 standard for describing metadata on
data sets, research cruises, monitoring networks, and research projects
=> marine metadata profiles, schemas, schematron rules
– Controlled vocabularies for the marine domain (>65,000 terms in 82
lists), with international governance and web services
– Standard data exchange formats : ODV ASCII and NetCDF (CF) fully
supported by controlled vocabularies
• Maintenance and dissemination of standard QA-QC procedures, together
with IOC/IODE and ICES

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SeaDataNet services and tools
• Set of tools to be used each data centre and freely available from the
SeaDataNet portal: metadata editor, data conversion software, data
analysis software (ODV), data interpolation software (DIVA)
• Capacity building by training
workshops for uptake of standards
and tools by the data centres
in order to achieve standardisation
• Pan-European services for harmonised discovery, access, visualisation of
data and data products
• Common SeaDataNet Data Policy and License

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Centralised metadata directories

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CDI Data Discovery and Access service
European data sources
data centres  ≈ 650 originators
SeaDataNet portal
Data centres
Search
and
Shop
Data
download
Metadata
+ transaction data

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CDI Data Discovery and Access service

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Data Products and viewers

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SeaDataNet cooperation
• Copernicus Marine Environmental Monitoring Services (CMEMS):
providing long-term archives and standards
• Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD): providing infrastructure,
standards and data collections for several indicators
• Large ocean monitoring systems (EuroGOOS, AtlantOS, Euro-ARGO,
JERICO-Next, ..): providing standards and validation + long-term archiving
services
• Ocean Data Interoperability Platform (ODIP): exploring and demonstrating
common standards and interoperability with leading data management
infrastructures in USA and Australia
• GEOSS - EuroGEOSS: Maintaining the GEOSS portal with SeaDataNet in-
situ data collections from large community of European data holders (> 100
data centres; >600 data originators)
• European Open Science Cloud (EOSC): shaping the pilot Blue Cloud
• European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODNet) driven by
Marine Knowledge 2020 and Blue Growth

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SeaDataCloud a new opportunity
Standards and information technology are always evolving, and
the SeaDataNet infrastructure must stay up-to-date to maintain
and further expand its services to its leads customers and major
stakeholders

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SeaDataCloud - Key numbers
• 4 year duration, started 1st November, 2016
• 10 M euros
• 56 partners
• 5 subcontractors
• 32 countries
• 1110.5 man/months

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• SDC is about updating and further developing standards
• SDC is about improving and innovating services &
products
• SDC is about adopting and elaborating new technologies
• SDC is about giving more attention to users and putting
the user experience in a central position
• Moreover, it is about implementing a strategic and
operational cooperation between the SeaDataNet
consortium of marine and ocean data centres and the
EUDAT consortium of e-infrastructure service providers

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Cooperation with EUDAT
5 EUDAT members are partners of SeaDataCloud :
CINECA, CSC, DKRZ, GRNET and STFC

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Architecture upgrading
Present SeaDataNet
architecture
Planned upgraded
architecture with data
replication, advanced
services and VRE in the
cloud